Republicans run campaigns complaining that government is ineffective and incompetent, then get elected and prove it.

Politicians are like diapers. They should be changed often, and for the same reasons.

That’s not true at all, there are plenty of wrecks in this military adventure

I am not a dual citizen, but know several. The benefit is that you have all the rights of a citizen in either country, the chief benefit is that you can stay in either country as long as you want to, and not worry about any visa limits.

The main drawback is that you are subject to all of the regulations in both countries, and if you get in some sort of legal trouble in one country, the other country can’t help you at all. (Of course, they may not have helped either way).

If you are a citizen of a country, you often must show that passport when entering. So these people frequently travel with both passports, and when going to a third country, use whichever one is most advantageous.

Yes, cash is still very much in use in the US. And you can pay the IRS in cash, at least for amounts less than $1000. But checks are also in use here. I’ve bought a few cars with cashier’s checks and nobody has given me a hassle about it.

However, there are certain venues now that will not accept cash at all. Theme parks, stadiums, concerts: they are mostly places where places to spend money are spread out, and the burden of physically handling the cash is a lot. I have seen theme parks with kiosks at the entrance to convert people’s cash into VISA debit card accounts just to facilitate this. I guess they think it makes it all more efficient.

I will say that while I still carry around cash, after the pandemic I refuse to carry around loose change. Why would I? I will never need to use a pay phone anymore, and most parking meters can be topped up from your phone. Anytime I buy something in cash and get change, I usually just put it in the tip jar, because there is no more room in that jar on the dresser.

DOESN’T THE GRIM REAPER TALK IN ALL CAPS?

The only worthwhile thing is the soundtrack, and you can listen to the albums without watching the movies.

… Actually, they don’t get mad. I have done that a few times, bringing sandwiches with me.

TSA only cares about liquids, you can bring all the non-liquid food on you want. If it fits in the scanner (and doesn’t show up as liquid), it’s all good. Your airline may care about bringing extra carry-ons, but they won’t careif you eat it before getting on.

And I’ve been on a bunch of those short flights, they go up and are cruising for about 20 mins before they start coming down. I bet the cabin crew didn’t always make it to the back of the plane anyway before they had to pack it up.

Of all the shitty things airlines do, it might be the least shitty.

It doesn’t matter. If he stays in power past Jan 2029, he won’t need an election (or any popularity polls) to do it.

Many of those other events are Jets games, though, and Jets fans have suffered enough…

IIRC the Meadowlands Stadium train is a special one-stop line from Secaucus. And that whole area is a big, marshy mess. Look at a map just west of NYC. You will see a big patch of urban area (Jersey City / Hoboken / Etc), and then to the west of that a huge patch of green. If there was any possible way to develop that land, they would. And they put the stadium right on the north end of that.

They simply didn’t design it to be accessible on foot, only by train and car. So NJT can charge whatever it wants, because the alternative is to pay to park there.

And yet they’re talking about a nanny as a local device temporarily attached to a car and that does not necessarily “phone home”.

Oh, my sweet summer child. You don’t actually believe that, do you? Read up on the stuff coming to new cars in the US next year …

They are in a position where they can pass legislation that will obligate the President to do something different. But I won’t hold my breath…

You realized you just proved my point. “We already have nannies for X, why not for Y” leads quickly to “Why not have nannies in all cars”, and then to “We have nannies in all the cars why can’t we turn off cars with criminals in them?”.

Can you imagine how much worse things could be if Trump’s gestapo could disable cars remotely?

The article only calls out the “Acting” and “Writing” categories, and the language suggests they are mainly concerned with a human doing the actual substantive work. So in this case, stunt work that is duly credited will probably still be eligible, even if they alter it as you suggest. The whole point of stunt work is to have a stand-in do it, but have it look like the main character in the final product.

Even before AI ate everything, a lot of visual effects have been created with CGI, and they still gave out Oscars for visual effects.

It is also unclear what happens if someone doesn’t have ID when they show up to vote. Do they get sent home? Do they file a provisional ballot? How is that provisional ballot eventually validated and counted?

Not all Voter ID laws are bad, but they should always be oriented toward having a path to allow the most vulnerable to vote. The right to vote should be absolute, and not subject to revocation if someone doesn’t have the correct paperwork on them. (Yes, I think felons ought to be able to vote, too.)

Apparently not, somehow.

Telehealth prescriptions have become common even in states where abortion is allowed — and the ruling blocks them there, too.

“This is going to affect patients’ access to abortion and miscarriage care in every state in the nation,” said Julia Kaye, an ACLU lawyer. “When telemedicine is restricted, rural communities, people with low incomes, people with disabilities, survivors of intimate partner violence and communities of color suffer the most.”

I thought courts weren’t supposed to issue nationwide injunctions anymore. Or is it OK now because Conservatives want it?

Was it like this?

Nope, that is incorrect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impeachment_in_the_United_States

If a Presidential impeachment succeeds, that person immediately leaves office. The Constitution says that if the President were ever to leave office, the VP takes over. But if there is also no VP, what happens next depends on the Presidential Succession Act:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidential_Succession_Act

Which says that the Speaker of the House becomes Acting President.

Its still a matter of debate what exactly an “acting President” can do in this context. Does the House Speaker resign from Congress and move into the White House? That is the plainest reading of it all, after all.